Editor’s Pick

Not your every day ghost story.

Elizabeth returns to RoYds; an Agency that investigates the paranormal. A bit rich of RoYds really, especially when they have several ghosts and a pair of fallen angels on their staff. Then again, Whituth is no ordinary town, nor Refuge of Delayed Souls your every day ghost story.
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No one ever knows the whole story

“How did you do that?”
“Short answer? Magic is real.”
Nestled deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, something is emerging. Kept in absolute secrecy, it seeps into a fading town, quietly shared from person to person. For Alden Bensen, a directionless high school graduate, this discovery could mean an escape from his empty existence. To Rachel . . .

Horror starts in our minds

“In a city of dreamers, there are bound to be nightmares.”
When a contract leads Jespar Dal’Varek, mercenary and professional cynic, to the island nation of Kilé, he sees it as a chance to turn the page.
He quickly finds that the “Land of Opportunities” and it’s glittering metropolis walk on a tightrope. While the upper class lives . . .

Murder, mystery and magic in a world teetering on the edge

The British Isles, the 16th century.
Decades ago, the fae returned to the mortal world. Released by a coven of magicians after centuries of imprisonment, they swept across the British Isles, covering the land with a tangled forest of enchanted trees. Cities fell. Thousands died. Only a handful of cities were saved.
Years later, the people of the . . .

Unusual Florida is a YA mystery/coming of age serial with some supernatural/fantastical elements.
It is the story of one very strange summer spent at Holden Point Resort in northwestern Florida, where the year is 1997 and nothing is as it seems. Where wonders and dangers lurk near the pool and beneath the palm trees. Where the unexplained happens just . . .

Token is a web serial about four friends who find themselves playing through simulated games in real life. Whether they want to play or not, it is not their choice, and whoever loses a game gets . . . re-balanced. Will they conquer this mystery before losing themselves completely?
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Five siblings fight monsters and solve age-old mysteries in the fantastical city of Grimoire.

In the mysterious town of Grimoire, wielders of incredible magic fight to protect the unwitting populace from horrifying monsters. Well-known among these mages are the Greysons, a family whose renown is well-earned. But as new revelations come to light about the monsters they fight, the magical community is split, and sinister plots and betrayals are coming to fruition. How will . . .

Rachel leads two lives—the one where she works in a café and gossips with her best friend Lucy, and the one where she’s a fervent animal activist, risking arrest with every new facility she breaks into. There’s something different about this job, though, something that doesn’t quite add up, but when Lucy goes missing, Rachel has more than enough to . . .

Wolf, Owl, & Black Apple is a serialized collection of mystery fiction, inspired by equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. It updates every Wednesday and Sunday.
The collected stories revolve around long-time friends Juniper Wolf and Noel Lackaday, two orphans from the city-state of Arcanum. Fooled and kidnapped, the two end up stranded in the corrupt resort . . .

Murder mystery aboard a magical airship.

Spirits were high when the luxurious Wax Wind skyship made its maiden voyage from Clementine one warm Noonsday evening. But the Wax Wind would never reach its destination. And its passengers would never be heard from again. Follow the stories of these passengers as they struggle to survive the nightmare they unknowingly stepped into, and unfurl the cryptic conspiracy that . . .

Psychic Robots, Mysteries and Violence

Battery and Coil are two psychic robots of varying competence living in a giant city contained entirely within a stone box. Nobody in Psychobox City knows why they’re there, how long they’ve been there or what’s outside. Battery and Coil intend to find out.
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To tourists, Caribou Canyon is an idyllic Colorado mountain town—one made even more enjoyable by the ghost stories told at local inns. But outsiders don’t know about the frequent disappearances and grisly murders. The residents know, and they might care—if these weren’t the things that made them some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. As the . . .

“You mean the man’s own servants won’t say who murdered him because it wouldn’t be polite?”
A new assistant for the ambassador arrives at his new assignment, only to find out that the ambassador is under arrest for murder. The only solution he can see is to find out who really did the murder, but quickly finds out that . . .

Random Editorial Review

Feb 15, 2009: “Refuge of Delayed Souls” is a rich, complex paranormal novel containing multiple mysteries and ghost stories. The chapters move between points in time, developing several plots, as they jump from the present to the past. Nothing and no one is quite what they seem. The mysteries in “Refuge of Delayed Souls” unravel through the eyes of Elizabeth, a woman who can see dead people. This gift leads her to the Refuge of Delayed Souls, a place for those who have not moved into the Light, and for those who are [more . . .]

Random Member Review

Nov 29, 2008: A difficult narrative is handled with surprising skill by the author of this story. A combination ghost story, mystery, and period piece, it also encompasses multiple timelines. The number of issues brought up by the different epochs, such as language differences, scene descriptions, and in this case legal issues, are more than enough to bring a lesser writer to his/her knees. This author, however, does her research and just gets to work on the story itself, handling all the named issues with ease and dexterity.